America's most keenly awaited animal competition has come to its corpulent conclusion, with Chunk named the winner of this ...

A brown bear weighing more than 500kg (1,100lb) overcame a fight with a fierce rival, receiving a broken jaw in the process, ...

All the bears in this competition live and feast in the Brooks River in Alaska. National park workers who organize the annual ...

After a week of voting and deliberation, Katmai National Park and Reserve announced the Fat Bear Week winner yesterday. Bear ...

This year’s winner is bear 32, AKA Chunk. In addition to his impressive girth, Chunk’s Cinderella story appealed to voters as ...

With a new champion of “Fat Bear Week” crowned for an 11th year running, Alaskans can look back on this year’s competition and celebrate what makes it so compelling.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Chunk, a towering brown bear with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat ...

We called out Chunk in our early coverage of Fat Bear Week 2025, and now this chonky boy has been crowned king of the bears.

Three-time runner-up Chunk wins Fat Bear Week 2025, beating Bear 856 and dethroning Grazer. Estimated weight: 1,200 pounds. Over 1.5M votes were cast worldwide.

Chunk, a brown bear with a broken jaw, came out on top after coming in second place for the last three years.

The hulking male brown bear, estimated to weigh well over 1,200 pounds, finished as runner-up in both 2023 and 2024.